Sufjan Stevens will ‘return to his folk roots’ when his new album ‘Carrie & Lowell‘ is released on March 30th.
The album is acting as the follow-up to ‘The Age Of Adz‘, released in 2010, which itself was the successor to the celebrated 2005 LP ‘Illinoise‘ – still one of this century’s crowning sonic achievements.
‘Carrie & Lowell’ was laid down with the help of music guests Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett, and is reported to look at the heavy themes of ‘life and death, love and loss’, and document Stevens’ own ‘struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love’.
‘Carrie & Lowell’ tracklist:
‘Death With Dignity’
‘Should Have Known Better’
‘All of Me Wants All of You’
‘Drawn to the Blood’
‘Fourth of July’
‘The Only Thing’
‘Carrie & Lowell’
‘Eugene’
‘John My Beloved’
‘No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross’
‘Blue Bucket of Gold’